QLogic 2-port 10Gb CNA (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

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Abstract

The QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter offers robust 8Gb Fibre Channel storage connectivity and 10Gb networking over a single Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) link. Because this adapter combines the functions of a Network Interface Card and a Host Bus Adapter on a single converged adapter, clients can realize potential benefits in cost, power and cooling, and data center footprint by deploying less hardware.

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The QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter offers robust 8Gb Fibre Channel storage connectivity and 10Gb networking over a single Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) link. Because this adapter combines the functions of a Network Interface Card and a Host Bus Adapter on a single converged adapter, clients can realize potential benefits in cost, power and cooling, and data center footprint by deploying less hardware.

These Converged Network Adapters are backward compatible with many 4Gb storage targets and work with most existing LAN and SAN infrastructures, providing an investment protection when consolidating data centers. You can use this adapter with the 10Gb Pass-Thru Module and connect to a converged top-of-rack switch such as the Brocade 8000 or Nexus 5000. With this setup, you can reduce hardware, as well as power and cooling costs, while boosting performance by operating at 10Gb bandwidth.

The adapter connects to the midplane directly, without having to use cables or SFP modules. By eliminating these components for up to 14 servers, the resulting savings alone cover the BladeCenter chassis investment.

Part number information

Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code

Description

Part number

Feature code(x-config / e-config)

QLogic 2-port 10Gb CNA (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

00Y3280

A3JB / 8275

QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)*

42C1830*

3592 / 8275*

* Part number 42C1830 was withdrawn in November 2012, and was rereleased as the new part number, 00Y3280.

These part numbers include the following items:

One QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)

Documentation CD

Important Notices document

Features

The expansion card has the following features:

Combo Form Factor (CFFh) PCI Express 2.0 x8 adapter

Communication module: QLogic ISP8112

Support for up to two CEE HSSMs in a BladeCenter H or HT chassis

Support for 10Gb Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)

Support for Fiber Channel over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE)

Full hardware offload for FCoCEE protocol processing

Support for IPv4 and IPv6

Support for SAN boot over CEE, PXE boot, and iSCSI boot

Support for Wake on LAN

Support for Jumbo Frames

Support for BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager for BIOS, UEFI, and FCode

Stateless offload features include:

IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads

Large and Giant Send Offload (LSO, GSO)

Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

Header-data split

Interrupt coalescing

NetQueue

IEEE standards compliance:

802.1Qbb rev. 0 (Priority-based flow control)

802.1Qaz rev. 0 (Enhanced transmission selection)

802.1Qaz rev. 0 (DCBX protocol)

802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet)

802.1q (VLAN)

802.3ad (Link Aggregation)

802.1p (Priority Encoding)

802.3x (Flow Control)

802.3ap (KX/KX4)

IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG)

IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)

IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)

TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)

ARP Specification (RFC 826)

Operating environment

The expansion card has the following physical specifications:

Temperature:

0 to 55 °C (32 to 113 °F) at 0 to 914 m (0 to 3000 ft.) operating

-43 to 73 °C (-40 to 163 °F) at 0 to 914 m (0 to 3000 ft.) storage

Relative humidity: 5% to 93% (non-condensing)

Supported servers and I/O modules

The QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) is supported in the IBM BladeCenter servers that are listed in Table 2.

Table 2. Supported servers

Partnumber

Product description

00Y3280

QLogic 2-port 10Gb CNA (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Figure 2 shows where the CFFh card is installed in a BladeCenter server.

Figure 2. Location on the BladeCenter server planar where the CFFh card is installed

In BladeCenter H, the ports of CFFh cards are routed through the midplane to I/O bays 7, 8, 9, and 10, as shown in Figure 3. The BladeCenter HT is similar in that the CFFh cards are also routed through the midplane to I/O bays 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Two I/O module must be installed in the chassis for each Ethernet port that you wish to use on the expansion card. Table 4 lists the specific I/O bays in the chassis.

Table 4. Locations of I/O modules required to connect to the expansion card

Expansion card

I/O bay 7

I/O bay 8

I/O bay 9

I/O bay 10

QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)

Supported I/O module

Not used

Supported I/O module

Not used

Popular configurations

Figure 4 shows the use of 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules to route two Ethernet ports from QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) installed into each server. Two 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H chassis. All connections between the controller, card, and the switch modules are internal to the chassis. No internal cabling is needed. External (top of rack,TOR) switches that support FCoCEE and cabling are required for the pass-thru module to operate.

*The 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module has 14 external 10Gb ports. You must have one transceiver for each 10Gb port in an I/O module.

Operating system support

The expansion card supports the following operating systems on the HS and LS blades:

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Datacenter Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Enterprise Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Standard Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x86 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x86 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x86 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x86 Edition

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003 R2 Premium Edition

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003 R2 Standard Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition with Xen

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server with Xen x64 Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64/EM64T

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for x86

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T

VMware ESX 4.0

VMware ESX 4.1

VMware ESXi 4.0

VMware ESXi 4.1

VMware vSphere 5

VMware vSphere 5.1

Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server in which it is installed. See IBM ServerProven for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported: http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. Select the blade server and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems.

The expansion card supports the following operating systems on the Power Systems blades:

Special Notices

This material has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is published AS IS. It has not been the subject of rigorous review. IBM assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a client responsibility and depends upon the client's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the client's operational environment.